Across a twenty-year practice, Stein has developed an expansive body of conceptual work rooted in painting which embraces performance, film, writing and collaborative projects. Building upon rich painterly traditions and contemporary culture, Stein creates a world of stories. Narratives and imagery, which appear in her work, are drawn from Stein’s study of psychoanalysis, feminist theory, histories and personal experience.
Lucy Stein (b.1979, Oxford, UK) lives and works in St Just, West Cornwall, UK. She received a BA in Painting from The Glasgow School of Art in 2004, Scotland and went on to study at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2004-2006). In 2024 Stein had a solo exhibition Damsel in Desire at Museo Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland. In 2023 she exhibited at The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) and the Eden Project, Cornwall. Her solo exhibition Wet Room toured from Spike Island, Bristol to De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill UK (2021/22). Her work has been shown at Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland (2022); Futura, Prague, Czech Republic (2020); Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK (2019); Galerie Gregor Staiger, Milan (2020) and Zurich (2021, 2018, 2015, 2013, 2011); Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Tate St Ives, UK (both 2018); NICC Brussels; TULCA festival, Galway; Newlyn Gallery, Penzance, UK (all 2017); Migros Museum, Zurich (2014); BROADWAY 1602, New York (2007,2009); Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and ICA London (both 2006).
